Dentifrice-bottle



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B. R. PETTIT.

DENTIPRIGE BOTTLE.

Patented Oct. 2-1 1884.

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'NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELIHU It. IETTIT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

DENTlF RlCE-BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 306,950, dated October 21, 1884.

Application filed July 17, 1884.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIHU It. 115'111'1, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Denti rice-Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide dentifrice-bottles with a mouth-piece which will serve to distribute the dentifrice over the surface of. a tooth-brush more uniformly and with less waste than an ordinary mouth-piece; and this object I attain in the mannerhereitr after set forth. reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a dentifrice-bottle with my improvement; Fig. 2, a vertical section on the line 1 2, Fig. 3. of the upper portion of the bottle, with the mouthpiece and the stopper detached therefrom; Fig. 3. a vertical section on the line 3 4, Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a sectional perspective view of the mouth-piece detached from the bottle, and Fig. a vertical section of a modified form of mouth piece.

Referring, in the first instance, to Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, A is an ordinary bottle, having a neck of comparatively large size. B is the mouth-piece, the prominent features of which are the lower portion, 1), the flange (1, and the horizontally-elongated projection 0 above the flange. The portion bofthe mouth-piece enters the mouth of the bottle as far as the flange (I will permit.and to insurea tight fit aring, h, of cork or other available material,intervenes between the neck and the said portion b of the mouthpiece. I prefer to make in this portion 2) of the mouth-piece a cavity, f, which communicates with an elongated opening, i, in the elongated projection c, for, when the bottle is inverted, this cavity serves the purpose of a funnel for directing the dentifrice to the said opening 2'. The lower portion, at, of a rcmovable stopper, D,fits freely in the elongated. opening '5 of the mouth-piece, has a flange, a, for bearing on the upper edge of the projection 0, and a suitable knob, 17, by which the (N0 model.)

mouth-piece. In the modification shown in Fig. 5 there is no cavity in the lower portion, b, of the mouth-piece, the elongated opening i extending entirely through the same; but I prefer the cavity ffor the reasons given above. 0n applying the projecting portion of the mouth-piece lengthwise to the tooth-brush and tilting the-bottle the dentifrice will be spread longitudinally and uniformly to a desirable extent over the brush without shaking the bottle or rubbing the projecting portion of the mouthpiece over the brush. I

As regards the prior state of the art, it may be remarked that a dentifrice-bottle with a trough at the top for receiving a brush, and an elongated opening forming a communication between the trough and the interior of the bottle, is described in Patent No. 118,163, August 15. 1871; but there is a difficulty in blowing bottles of this class, and this difficulty l obviate by making the mouth-piece separate from the bottle, which may be of the ordinary character.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination of a dentifricebottle with a detachable mouth-piece having an elongated opening. substantially as set forth.

1-. The mouth-piece B, having an elongated opening, 2', in the top, and a lower portion, 1), in which is made a cavity, f, communicating with the said elongated opening, substantially as specified.

3'. The flanged mouth-piece B, having an elongated project-ion, c, in which is elongated opening '5, and a lower portion, Z), in which is a cavity, f, communicating with the said opening, substantially-as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ELIHU It. PETTIT.

IVitnesses:

JOHN M. CLAYTON,

HARRY SMITH.

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